Venice was an interesting experience for us. We arrived thinking our hotel was maybe 10 minutes from Venice, but we were actually 5 towns outside of Venice and there was a 30 minute bus ride to Venice. This is about the 3rd or 4th time this has happened to us and after Switzerland it was a bit of a shock to have to deal with frustrating travel situations again. We have decided not to use hostelplanet.com again for finding hotels.
Venice was very lovely and charming. It was amazing because it hasn't changed in years. The way I saw Venice was very similar to the way Shakespeare saw Venice. Imagine narrow cobble streets, little bridges, and little glass, leather, and paper shops everywhere. My favorite part of Venice were the windows. The buildings are all painted warm terra cota colours; yellow, orange, red, cream. Then they all had lovely windows or balconies with cheerful flowers often red. I took alot of pictures of different windows. They just looked so charming and inviting in the tiny little city.
Unfortunately, Venice was very expensive. We all spent a lot of money in Venice getting gifts for our friends and family. Venetian glass is very beautiful and in Venice, it's everywhere. They make art, jewellery, chess sets, anything you can imagine from glass.
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